Folklore category: 2054 books
Warrior Ways
Explorations in Modern Military Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Warrior Ways is one of the first book-length explorations of military folklife, and focuses on the lore produced by modern American warriors, illuminating the ways in which members of the armed services creatively express the complex experience of military life. In short, lively essays, contributors...
by W. J. Gruffydd
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
This early work by W. J. Gruffydd was originally published in 1950 and we are now republishing it for the modern reader. 'Folklore and Myth in the Mabinogion' is a transcript of a lecture delivered at the National Museum of Wales. This is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in Welsh mythology.
Folk Culture in the Digital Age
The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Smart phones, tablets, Facebook, Twitter, and wireless Internet connections are the latest technologies to have become entrenched in our culture. Although traditionalists have argued that computer-mediated communication and cyberspace are incongruent with the study of folklore, Trevor J. Blank sees...
Tradition in the Twenty-First Century
Locating the Role of the Past in the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In Tradition in the Twenty-First Century, eight diverse contributors explore the role of tradition in contemporary folkloristics. For more than a century, folklorists have been interested in locating sources of tradition and accounting for the conceptual boundaries of tradition, but in the modern...
by Mabel Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Part of a series on the county folklore and festivals of the United Kingdom, this remarkable and well researched book on the festival customs and feast day practices all drawn from the voices of the people who took part in them. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's...
by Theresa Bane
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
“Here there be dragons”—this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known world and what lay beyond. Heroes who ventured there were only as great as the beasts they encountered. This encyclopedia contains more than 2,200 monsters of myth and folklore, who both made...
Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux
Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Winner of the 2018 Chicago Folklore Prize
and
Winner of the 2018 Opie Prize
Jeanne Soileau, a teacher in New Orleans and south Louisiana for more than forty years, examines how children’s folklore, especially among African Americans, has changed. From the tumult of integration to the present,...
by Theresa Bane
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Every culture has in its folklore and mythology beings of immense size and strength, as well as other preternatural humanoids great or small who walk among us, serving the divine or fulfilling their own agendas. This book catalogs the lore and legends of more than 1,000 different humanoid species...
City of Streams
Galway Folklore and Folk Life in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
On the eve of the Second World War in Europe, the senior pupils in the National Schools of the West of Ireland were engaged in an important, if somewhat unusual, task. With the aid of a questionnaire supplied by the Irish Folklore Commission, and under the direction of their teachers, the children...
by M. C. Balfour
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Legends of the Lincolnshire cars is an absorbing collection of folk tales from on of the most remote and rural English counties. Collected at the turn of the century by an esteemed member of the folklore society. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before,...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This collection of folklore and stories sheds light on a fascinating blend of cultures and practices.. Discussing the blend of West African religion and superstition in Jamaica through the eyes of the white Christian observer. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's...
by Mikhaïl Dragomanov, Lydia Dragomanova, Patrice Lajoye
Language: French
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 24, 2015
En exil à Genève de 1876 à 1889, Mikhaïl Dragomanov, auparavant professeur à l’Université de Kiev et grand spécialiste des traditions slaves, publie, avec l’aide de sa fille Lydia, une série de notes et articles en français, dans des revues comme La Tradition ou Mélusine, consacrées...
The Frank C. Brown Collection of NC Folklore
Vol. VII: Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina, pt. 2
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Frank C. Brown organized the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1913. Both Dr. Brown and the Society collected stores from individuals—Brown through his classes at Duke University and through his summer expeditions in the North Carolina mountains, and the Society by interviewing its members—and...
Frankie and Johnny
Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Originating in a homicide in St. Louis in 1899, the ballad of "Frankie and Johnny" became one of America's most familiar songs during the first half of the twentieth century. It crossed lines of race, class, and artistic genres, taking form in such varied expressions as a folk song performed by Huddie...